Maryn McKenna | |
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Occupation(s) | author, journalist |
Years active | since 1985 |
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Maryn McKenna is an American author and journalist. She has written for Nature, National Geographic, and Scientific American, and spoke on antibiotics at TED 2015.[1]
In 2009, McKenna received a Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship from The Journalism School at Columbia University.[2] In 2012, she was awarded an Ethics & Justice Investigative Journalism Fellowship at The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.[3] In 2013, she joined the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work on a Fellowship.[4]
McKenna has written for Nature,[5] Scientific American, Wired and the National Geographic,[3] and has been a staff reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer, the Boston Herald and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.[6]
Her book Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service is about the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[7] Her book Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA is about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus;[8] a review on the CDC website called it "an extensively researched and detailed review".[9]
Her article "Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future" is included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014.[10]